Unless you just arrived on this planet, you are all too aware of a bit of a pandemic virus spreading throughout the land. It is brought about by contact with our own species, with the added possibility of Internet “experts”, TV, and...
Read moreHow Much Air ‘Ya Got?
The length of a scuba dive is determined by the amount of air in your tank. When it’s empty, you are done diving. Even if you are still underwater when it happens you are done diving. Then very suddenly you are doing something quite different...
Read moreShark Attack!!!
“BUUGGSSSS!!!!” “BUUGGSSSS!!!!” I hear Mickey screaming at me through his scuba regulator, and the thirty feet of seawater separating us. We are swimming along the edge of a seamount, about sixty feet deep in the Caribbean Sea half way between...
Read moreRebirth of a Coral Reef
by Gary Carlson The dive site of choice for the last year or so with my oft dive buddy Mickey Charteris is just off the furthest west point of the island of Roatan. It is a huge area rarely dove by those on a casual dive holiday...
Read moreCrime in Honduras
by Gary Carlson UPDATED FROM SEPTEMBER 2015 Writing about the crime rates in a country where you are trying to promote tourism is like playing with an 800 pound gorilla, you shouldn’t do that! With a long record of ignoring good advice, we...
Read moreSand Flies of the Caribbean
by Gary Carlson At some point in any general conversation about Roatan and the other islands of the Caribbean the subject of our mutual aggravation, the Sand Fly, will come up. Central America, including the island of Roatan, is an Etymologist’s...
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